svn commit: r502236 - in head/x11-wm/hikari: . files

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 12:22:09PM +0200, Mateusz Piotrowski wrote:
> On Wed, 22 May 2019 at 09:44, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > ...
> > Why so damn complicated?  What's wrong with DESKTOP_ENTRIES?
> 
> I was considering DESKTOP_ENTRIES but it looked like it's only suitable
> for applications, not window managers.

I'm not fd.o spec expert, so I beg to be corrected, but it looks quite
suitable for both, at least I didn't find any explicit objection towards
window/session managers.

> I took a second look and as fair as I understand I can in fact use
> DESKTOP_ENTRIES. I just have to change DESKTOPDIR to
> ${PREFIX}/share/xsessions.
> 
> Am I right?

I'd say you are; in unfortunate case our logic behing DESKTOP_ENTRIES
does indeed support applications only, IMHO it should be corrected or
augmented to support both usages.

As for Categories, I'd google what other distributions that install
files under ${PREFIX}/share/xsessions put there.

./danfe